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Cosmic collision created ringed planet

April 1, 2014
A comet-like planet surrounded by two fine rings of ice and pebbles has been found between Saturn and Uranus; astronomers believe it may have formed during a cosmic collision. The...

The slow thaw

March 19, 2014
Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big Bang; instead it thawed from an extremely cold and almost static state.Professor Christof Wetterich has developed...

New evidence for Big Bang

March 17, 2014
Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred with the Big Bang. B-mode polarisation –...

Wobbly spinning top planet found

March 12, 2014
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the constellation of Cygnus.Kepler-413b precesses or wobbles on its axis wildly; the tilt of...

Revived spacecraft spots new asteroid

January 29, 2014
A NASA spacecraft recently bought out of hibernation has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid.NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) was reactivated in September 2013 and received a new name and...

Rosetta successfully revived

January 21, 2014
Comet-chaser Rosetta has successfully been revived from its 31 month slumber; its pre-programmed alarm clock went off early on 20th January and it signalled Earth to let scientists know it...

Ground breaking European missions to probe early universe

January 6, 2014
The ESA has announced their next two L-class missions; one to study galaxy and black hole formation, and one to establish a gravitational wave observatory.The so called Large, or L-class,...

The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’

December 4, 2013
Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’t exist.The results from two independent teams published in Nature confirm Kepler-78b as the first known Earth-sized...

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxy discovered

November 1, 2013
An ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a density of stars 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way has been discovered by astronomers from Michigan State University.The galaxy – dubbed M60-UCD1 –...

Magellanic Stream mystery solved by Hubble telescope

September 16, 2013
A 40-year old mystery has been solved by astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They have uncovered the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly...

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